In order to learn more about microservices, container orchestration and service meshes, I've set up a local development environment with Minikube, Istio and tools like Kiali and created a sample application. In this article I describe how to debug these services locally. (more…)

As developer I like to do as much development as possible locally, because it's generally easier and faster to develop and debug code. In order to build cloud-native applications and microservices, it's very convenient to have a local Kubernetes cluster and Istio running locally. This article describes how to install these components and some additional tools like Kiali. (more…)

Kubernetes has become the de facto standard for deploying and managing containerized applications in public, private and hybrid cloud environments. While Kubernetes is really powerful, it's not the easiest way for developers to deploy applications. (more…)

At Think 2019 IBM announced two new add-ons to the IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service: Managed Istio and Managed Knative. (more…)

In preparation for a Java conference, I've spent some time to catch up on the latest activities in the Java community. With Java EE's move to Eclipse and projects like MicroProfile there are a lot of things going on and there is a lot of innovation. Below are some pointers to articles my colleagues have published recently. (more…)

Blue Cloud Mirror is a game where players need to show specific emotions and do specific poses. The game is a showcase of various IBM Cloud technologies. (more…)

Blue Cloud Mirror is a game where players need to show specific emotions and do specific poses. In this article I describe briefly the used technologies. (more…)

Last week I open sourced a web application called Blue Cloud Mirror which is a game where players need to show five specific emotions and do five specific poses in two levels. The faster, the better. (more…)

Recently I open sourced sample code that shows how to develop entire serverless web applications on the IBM Cloud with Apache OpenWhisk. In the original sample I used an Angular application. In this article I describe how to deploy Vue.js applications on the IBM Cloud. (more…)

Last month I started to work on a new demo (Blue Cloud Mirror) which highlights some of the IBM Cloud capabilities. Part of the demo is a web application. Since I had heard so many good things about Vue.js, I decided to give Vue.js a try. (more…)